This is very much a kernel bug. I just installed CentOS 6 inside an LXC container on one of the affected systems and downloads in that container also get corrupted:
Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/src/freeswitch/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 174638, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (39940/39940), done. error: inflate: data stream error (incorrect header check)MiB/s fatal: pack has bad object at offset 72897475: inflate returned -3 fatal: index-pack failed ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/883338 Title: Corrupt files on download To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/883338/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs